MA French and History
Entry requirements
A level: from AAA to AAB (required: a language other than English at B) IB: from 36 points with 665 at HL to 34 points with 655 at HL
About this course
MA (Hons) in French and History, a French and Francophone Studies and History degree exploring modern history, cultural developments, and political frameworks across four years of study. The curriculum includes a mandatory academic year abroad, which students spend studying or working in one or two international destinations. The first year covers foundational historical periods and themes through resistance and collaboration, the Fifth Republic, colonisation and decolonisation, and May 1968. Second-year studies examine cultural production, gender, and migration through options such as Cultural Responses to War, Migration, Exile, Diaspora, and Crime and Detection in Literature. In the third year, students undertake a full academic year abroad, participating in study placements at partner institutions or working and volunteering with private companies, charities, or established schemes like the British Council’s English Language Assistants programme.
Modules
- resistance and collaboration
- the Fifth Republic
- colonisation and decolonisation
- May 1968
- feminism
- a wide-ranging core course focused on key skills and habits, and showcasing the variety of topics available at Edinburgh, including in modern history
- one of two courses, covering either: the medieval period the early modern period
- the medieval period
- the early modern period
- business, economics and informatics
- politics, social policy, social anthropology and international relations
- art and architectural history
- history, classics and archaeology
- Celtic and Scottish ethnology
- linguistics and language sciences
- philosophy, divinity and law
- Cultural Responses to War
- Migration, Exile, Diaspora
- Crime and Detection in Literature
- Gender and Culture
- The Coming-of-Age Narrative
- Introduction to European Cinema
- Dynamics of Language and Power
- Languages Beyond University
- study in one or two destinations
- work in one or two destinations
- study in one destination and work in another
- two semesters at a single institution
- one semester at two different institutions (in different destinations)
- arrange to work or volunteer with a private company or charity
- apply to an established placement scheme, such as the British Council’s English Language Assistants programme
- Student Wellbeing Service
- Student Counselling
- Student Disability and Learning Support
- University emergency helpline (available 24 hours a day)